Three years after my first amazing trip to Krabi, Thailand I found myself back on a longtail boat cruising the Andaman Sea with my girlfriend Betina.
The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. ~ Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to…
Well, I am not a coffee connoisseur by any means, however, I spent quite a lot of time in many Chiang Mai coffee shops, because there are just so many creative, cool & hip cafés there. This is not a “Top 10” or “Best of” list but…
Kopi Luwak – World’s Most Expensive Coffee Yes, it’s true, and before you begin to moan and gag, think for a moment, about what you might be missing, especially if you are a true coffee lover. Well, there must be a reason why people would pay a lot of money…
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
-Rose Lane
Instead of flying down to Phuket, from Chiang Mai, I took the scenic route by land and stopped in Sukhothai which I actually didn’t really know much about at the time. I remembered seeing a picture of the ancient ruins…
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal…
– Sa Nae Doi Luang – Charm of Big Mountain – Chiang Dao – On my way to Chiang Dao, I passed this coffee shop/restaurant and ordered probably the best tasting Watermelon shake I had in Thailand. Every fruit shake I ordered was great anywhere I went, but they definitely…
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to…
Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave. ~ Paul Walker Surfing Boston Bay Boston Bay is known as one of Jamaica’s most popular…